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Electronic Waste Electronic devices were made to resist decomposition, forever. The glass they might contain takes 1-2 million years to decompose. A popular statistic floating around is that e-waste accounts for 2 percent of America's trash in landfills and 70 percent of our overall toxic waste.

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Electronics are made using a lot of chemicals ? including poisonous ones. Liquid-crystal display screens contain mercury, cathode-ray tubes have lead, and there's cadmium in batteries and semiconductors. Dumping e-waste into a landfill means those chemicals can leach into the soil and water.

Simply defined, a hazardous waste is a waste with properties that make it dangerous or capable of having a harmful effect on human health or the environment.

It spans from electronic equipment such as computer monitors, computer chips, computer keyboards, wires, and video cameras to household items such as old vacuums, irons, telephones, electric shavers, electric radiators, and electric fans.

According to USEPA, hazardous waste is defined as any solid, liquid or gaseous substance which, by reasons of any physical, chemical, reactive, toxic or infectious characteristics, causes danger to health or environment when improperly treated, stored, transported or disposed off.

However, most electronic waste still ends up in landfills or gets incinerated, wasting useful resources and releasing toxic chemicals and other pollutants ? such as lead, mercury, and cadmium ? into the soil, groundwater, and atmosphere to the detriment of the environment.